Statement by Assistant
to the President for Press Relations Fitzwater on the Deployment of Strategic
Nuclear Missiles in Cuba

February 15, 1988

The
SS - 4 and SS - 5 missile sites established in Cuba between late August and
mid-October 1962 were confirmed as having been destroyed in that year. We also
are confident that the missiles were removed from Cuba at that time. We have
had extensive intelligence collection directed at Cuba since 1962 and have no
evidence that SS - 4, SS - 5, or other strategic missiles have been deployed
there.